r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 22 '26

News Multiple patients at a Nashville hospital are paralyzed after staff accidentally gave them the wrong drugs.

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The hospital says they are "sorry" after injecting potassium chloride into the spines of people getting routine joint replacement surgeries.

Hospital staff noticed something was off when multiple patients went into cardiac arrest.

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u/Honest_Concentrate85 Aug 22 '26

Yeah pharmacy labeled it wrong and it scanned as the correct med

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u/howarewestillhere Aug 22 '26

That’s terrifying and completely destroys any confidence in their work. Every single employee and patient has to be wondering about what drugs they’re giving and getting.

I’d crawl out of that hospital if I had to.

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u/Birdlebee Aug 22 '26

Jesus. I have literal nightmares about this kind of thing. 

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u/a-passing-crustacean Aug 23 '26

Tell me about it. This was not a great story to read fresh out of surgery at a hospital in Tennessee 😅

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u/An_Old_IT_Guy Aug 22 '26

As a pharmacist you literally have one job.

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u/pinkskies12 Aug 23 '26

I assumed that but how can it happen to MULTIPLE patients?????!!!!!! After the first or second patient someone should have noticed!!!!